republican

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic.

adj. Favoring a republic as the best form of government.

adj. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States.

n. One who favors a republic as the best form of government.

n. A member of the Republican Party of the United States.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to a republic.

adj. Consonant with the principles of a republic

n. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

n. A member of the Republican party.

n.

n. The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.

n. A South African weaver bird (Philetærus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of the nature of or pertaining to a republic or common wealth: as, a republican constitution or government.

Consonant to the principles of a republic: as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.

Of or pertaining to or favoring the Republican party: as, a Republican senator. See below.

In ornithology, living in community; nesting or breeding in common: as, the republican or sociable grosbeak, Philetærus socius; the republican swallow, formerly called Hirundo respublicana. See cuts under hive-nest.

In United States history:

n. One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

n. A member of a republican party; specifically , in United States history, a member of the Republican party.

It is time that CNN and their bunch of nobody commentators present the news as an independent and not as Democrat or Republican. specially the women that sit and offer their constantly negative opinion about the republican party like Berger and Brown.

It is amazing that the Republican party should try and play with the lives of the people of America……3/4 of the House democratic voted for this bill……but the arrogance of the republican mavericks to play Russian roulette with such disregard for the economy and the American people ….

Republican freedom can be thought of as a kind of status: to be a free person is to enjoy the rights and privileges attached to the status of republican citizenship, whereas the paradigm of the unfree person is the slave.

I think there are plenty of elements of so-called "liberal bias" in the media, however, those that would call themselves "liberal" aren't even half as organized or aligned. Right-wing media explicitly distributes things like "message of the day"--talking points for the echo chamber.

Truly, though, as I've said elsewhere on Wordie, it makes me so irritated that things are always framed as RIGHT/LEFT. Like this ridiculous thing. While this amuses the symbolic/dual-hemisphere human brain metaphorist in me, it's pure delusion. When you sample the majority of people, ISSUE BY ISSUE, you find that we are unique slowflakes, and our beliefs are all over the map. By forcing all these multi-shaped pegs into 1-or-2 hole options, it hurts the ability to have quality discourse or an evolution of thought--a diversity of ideas is possibily the best means to stimulate a greater 'synthesis' (in the dialectic sense).

In the current post-convention state of the 2008 presidential election, if I were the Obama camp, I would be jumping *all over* the positioning of McCain. Virtually every single speech at the RNC dropped the term "small town values" (a dog-whistle rebranding of family values with that rural-verus-city, culture war touch)--but by doing this, Republicans are basically maligning the larger population centers in two ways: one, suggesting that the so-called upstanding Christian values don't exist in cities, and two, that whatever so-called non-Christian values in cities just aren't worth honoring or respecting as much.

If this 'partisan' approach is indeed intentional, it would suggest that seperationist strategy is advantageous to the GOP (trying to knock off some 'Small Town' people from Obama's 'uniter' positioning)... Obama could nail him on this if his campaign is smart enough to utilize it.

I thought this article was really well written and on-point. My only criticism is that the author pays little note to the obvious effect of the huge infrastructure and support system of right-wing media, brainwashing through repetition, etc.

"I do like Republicans. I like macho men. I want a man who exudes manliness when he walks into a room without saying anything. I want a man who can strangle a puma to death with his bare hands. Feisty!"